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Posted by Jaggl, 02-06-2008, 07:53 PM
Hello, iam searching for a Hardware with can ping my Server and if a Server is not responsing, it should send a SMS to a Phone Number........ Is there are Hardware out witch can handle this? I just found Software what you can install on a Server or Services witch provide such a Service...... BTW: The GSM Modem should be available for Europe GSM :=)
Posted by ThatScriptGuy, 02-07-2008, 02:26 AM
www.pingdom.com Their service has worked flawlessly for me since I signed up.
Posted by plumsauce, 02-07-2008, 04:12 AM
As far as I know, there are no specialised appliances for this. The hardware is usually a computer. So, about the best you can do is to grab the software, install it on a laptop, and stick a gsm modem on the laptop. That would constitute an applicance of sorts. If you really want to go nuts, I guess you could get the software of your choice, integrate the os, and install it on a special purpose single board computer that uses compact flash instead of a hard drive. A lot of work to duplicate the end result, which is a message to your sms. But, you *can* do it. The question is, why would you? If your idea is to somehow sell this *applicance*, I would doubt very much that there is any market for it.
Posted by Jaggl, 02-07-2008, 07:01 PM
so what softer should i use?
Posted by maxmedia1, 02-07-2008, 07:21 PM
We recommend the whatsup product. Also in the past we have used a shareware product called slist. It really depends if you are only looking for ping response, or if you are querying service status also.
Posted by the_wanderer, 02-08-2008, 05:04 AM
Nagios will do it. The best of open source monitoring solutions. Google "Nagios sms" Enjoy.
Posted by Jaggl, 02-08-2008, 06:41 AM
i need something windows based, cause we only have windows Dedicated Servers

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